Professional positions

Honorary Professor Associate, Brunel University School of Sport & Education

Council Member and Trustee of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2004-2010)

Council Member (2007-2010) and Fellow of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine

Chairman of the RCSEng Medical Student Liaison Committee (2004-2010)

Vice Chairman of The Federation of Independent Practitioners Organisations (FIPO)

Member of the International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society

President of the UK Biological Knee Society

Personal details

Ian has lived in Ruislip for the last 20 years. He is married and has two children. Ian grew up in Southend and was Head Boy of Westcliff High School for boys. He also sang in the Southend Boys’ Choir, performing regularly in venues including the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall. Nowadays, outside of his professional life, Ian maintains an interest in sailing, music and wine.

Medical & Surgical Training

Ian trained at Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1992. His postgraduate medical training was then undertaken in various hospitals across the UK, including Southend, Peterborough, Northampton, Nottingham and Oxford. In 1998 Ian started specialist training in Trauma & Orthopaedics as a Specialist Registrar in the North West Thames region. During his training, Ian spent a period at Southampton General Hospital with Mr David Barrett, as a specialist Knee Fellow. Ian completed his specialist training in 2003, and was then awarded his Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) and was entered onto the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council.

Ian was appointed as a Consultant in the Orthopaedic Department at Ealing Hospital in April 2005 and took up his position there in June 2005. Prior to this he was employed as a Locum Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant at Hillingdon Hospital for 11 months. Ian has now left the NHS and works exclusively in the independent sector.

Membership of Professional Associations

Ian is a member of the following:-

The British Orthopaedic Association
The British Association for Surgery of the Knee
The London Consultants Association
International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society
The UK Biological Knee Society

Positions of Professional Responsibility

In 2003 – 2004 Ian was President of the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association and sat on the Council of the British Orthopaedic Association and the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was also an invited observer on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and was the Trainees Representative on the Joint Committee for Higher Surgical Training.

In April 2004 Ian was the youngest ever surgeon to be elected as a Council Member and Trustee of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, for a 6-year term of office (2004-2010). Ian was also appointed onto the Council of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine, as the representative of the Royal College of Surgeons (2007-2010). He has also been the Chairman of the Royal College’s Medical Student Liaison Committee (2004-2010). In addition, Ian is a Board Member of the Federation of Independent Practitioners Organisations (FIPO).

Academic Interests

Ian first developed an interest in academic medicine whilst training as a junior doctor, and he has maintained a strong academic interest ever since. In April 2003, Ian was awarded the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) President’s Medal by Mr Malcolm Glasgow for his research into the biomechanics of meniscal repair.

Ian’s continued involvement in academia and research has resulted in him being awarded a Master of Surgery Higher Degree from Imperial College in 2004, with a thesis on The Biomechanics of Human Meniscal Transplantation.

In June 2005, Ian was appointed an Honorary Professor Associate at Brunel University in the School of Sport & Education.

“Management of suspected scaphoid fractures in accident and emergency departments – time for new guidelines.”
C.C. Tai, M. Ramachandran, I.D. McDermott, S. Ridgeway and Z. Mirza
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2005; 87(5): 353 – 357

“The Internet – friend or foe? A questionnaire study of orthopaedic out-patients.”
C.M. Gupte, A. Hassan, I.D. McDermott and R.DeW. Thomas
The Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2002; 84: 187-192

Ian has also given numerous presentations at both national and international meetings, including:-

Presented at The British Association for Surgery of the Knee Spring Meeting in Harrogate 14th March ’97
“Anterior Cervical Fusion: Preliminary Results Comparing the Smith-Robinson Technique with the Carbon Fibre Interbody Fusion Cage”

Presented at the British Cervical Spine Society Annual Meeting, Bristol, 12th-13th November 1999

Presented at The St. Mary’s Hospital Short Papers Prize Day, 15th December 1999

“Meniscal allograft transplantation: a cadaveric study of implantation techniques and their mechanical effectiveness.”

Presented at the British Association of Tissue Banking Meeting, Liverpool, 8th April 2003

“The Biomechanics of Meniscal Repair.”

Invited Lecture in Symposium “Meniscal Injury – Resect or Repair?” at the 6th Congress of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Helsinki, Finland, 10th June 2003

Invited lecture at The British Orthopaedic Trainees Association Annual Meeting, 4th June 2005

“When neck of femurs break.”

Invited lecture (and meeting Chairman) at ’21st Century NOF – Modern Management of the Fractured Neck of Femur’, a meeting hosted by the RSM in association with the ARGO Medical Education Programme, 29th September 2005, The Royal Society of Medicine, London.

“The prevention of exercise-induced injury.”

Invited lecture at The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences’ Consensus Meeting on ‘Physical activity in the prevention of chronic disease. Brunel University, Middlesex, 24th April 2007